Saturday, 19 January 2013

Not much of a huge
update on the humanised.com comic project. But here is a sample of the promo I
am putting together for DA which Is been drawn digitally it is of the famer
girl and her pet dragon who will be the protagonists throughout the adventure.

I am trying to get it
done ASAP because my schedule for next week will be rather packed I believe. At
the same time I want to continue development on my other projects including the
pony title cards.

Oh Rats There’s one
other project I have forgotten to mention.

After been out of work
for so long like 7 months and going back and froth with the job centre and
sites. I figured for the New Year it was about time to try a different approach
to getting recognised for my talent. So I looked at visual ways to promote the local Warley woods trust and
its members because they do so much for this tiny bit of greenly situated in a
predominantly urban and built up area. They do nature walks, bat hunting,
golfing (partly because there’s a golf Crouse) and music festivals. Every time
I go to Warley woods I am filled with that warm feeling of nature and community
it has drawn people together over the years so it’s a very special place and
haven to everyone in the region.

Then it hit me like an
apple from Newton’s tree. “I need to design some

cartoons /illustrations
that could sell the services the woods run and present it in a positive light”.

That’s exactly what I
did and have done for the last week and a half on top of other things.

My original idea style wise was to juxtapose
reality with fantasy like my influence Todd Schorr. The above sketch is
to illustrate in a cute funny way families adopting trees from the woods for
protection

Watching you birds Shower

During development of the above sketches that i planed on inking in detail.
Someone suggested my iconic bean characters because they are expressive and universal
so they could appeal to everyone without insulting or stereotyping.

I was not
sure about this suggestion at first because i find my Beanies to be a cop out
nowadays. An excuse not to improve on things i cannot design or draw that well
and need more practice in.

I need to draw more animals this year

But after inking in these two bean related
illustrations advertising the dog walking and bat hunting my mind set
completely changed. I now can see promise in these characters as cards or
cartoons for visitors to pick up as a reminder of the fun time they had in the woods.

I started another one
today but not moved on to colour yet.

Once I have these
illustrations finalized I am sending them off to the trust to get their
feedback on whether my work or art could help in branding the woods to the
public better.

Disappointed that
there’s been a lack of jowy related drawing last week but I am taking each day
as it comes not rushing or forcing anything.

Wednesday, 16 January 2013

Today was a very proactive day with the comic and other shenanigans. Although it looks like a bunch of rough pencil sketches that are slightly
smudged sadly because I lean on my sketchbook a lot. These are here to
establish the main characters designs and poses in the comic before I move on
to layouts or anything else.

FACT What’s been decided for the story?

·Our lead protagonist will be the young female framer to break the
cliché of the male hero. (I just want to draw a female hero is the real reason
O.K)

·She will need to rescue someone in the story. A prince who’s the
damsel in distress as of now. He may get more character development later on.

·There will be at least four other characters that will join the girl
and aid her in her quest each with a unique personality.

·The universe this epic will take place in will be the city of the
Internet so almost everything about it will get referenced in the background or
by words. Think of roger rabbit but its over 9000 yeah those jokes may be in there too.

I am
going to try and persuade my dad who’s the writer of the comic to put up the
script this week so you can get a better understanding of the story. I would like to get as many people
interested in this project as soon as possible. I am thinking of putting up a promo piece on my DA
account this week as well.

thats the update on the comic right now more to come just you wait.

I thought my last post was kind of small
considering pervious ones . I decided to share some of my rough sketches I did
before and after the new year enjoy.

Have Faith for this year will be good

Ponies can go with anything even Aphex Twin lol

My university note pads were really in fashion for sketching
last year. =D

But i have a ton of sketchbooks why choose
these i hear myself asking?

this was Inspired after seeing the new History documentary series on BBC Four. Lost kingdoms of south America. Extremely fascinating don’t ask me what this sketch is about go watch the dang thing right now.

I was trying to channel the style of Al Williamson because i was looking at a book earlier full of sketches he had done.